| bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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| bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
| boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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| (verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
| (verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
| boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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| (verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
| coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
| draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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| draggled | (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: bedraggled |
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| gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
| giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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| goggle | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, gawp |
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| goggles | (noun) (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes | - |
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| guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
| (verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
| haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
| haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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| hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
| joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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| (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
| (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
| juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
| (verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
| (verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
| (verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
| (verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
| juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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| jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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| (noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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| smuggle | (verb) import or export without paying customs duties | - |
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| smuggled | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, contraband |
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| smuggler | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner |
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| snuggle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, nestle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle |
| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: nestle |
| snuggled | (adjective) drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection | Synonyms: nestled |
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| squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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| (noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
| straggle | (noun) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) | - |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
| straggler | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: strayer |
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| struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| struggler | (noun) a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
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| toggle | (noun) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) | - |
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| (noun) a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions | Synonyms: on-off switch, on/off switch, toggle switch |
| (noun) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time | - |
| (verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle | - |
| (verb) release by a toggle switch | - |
| (verb) provide with a toggle or toggles | - |
| waggle | (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: shake, wag |
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| (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
| (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
| wiggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wriggle |
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| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, joggle |
| wiggler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm |
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| (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wriggler |
| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wriggler |
| wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
| wriggler | (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wiggler |
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| (noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wiggler |